Crazy From the Heat by David Lee Roth

Crazy From the Heat, the 1985 EP that launched David Lee Roth's solo career, was actually cut while he was still fronting Van Halen, and within a few weeks of its release he and the band had gone their separate ways. So this short Warner Bros. record plays like a trial balloon that turned into a getaway car.

And what a getaway. Diamond Dave was never a man for half measures, and he brings the same wild, grinning showmanship he was known for on stage to "California Girls", which became one of his signature solo hits. The EP went platinum, with more than a million copies sold in the US, proof that Roth's appetite for the spotlight didn't need a band name behind it.

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